Novos repertórios, velhas moralidades:

Sexualidades em disputa, ou sobre como a maternidade produz a retórica de um “HIV saudável”

Abstract

In this essay, we analyze emerging questions in the intersection among youth, sexualities, genders, and HIV/Aids, since the interventions of the biotechnology that focus, while politics of global health, on young people living with HIV/Aids. This way, notions related to health, selfcare, exercise of the sexuality and life projection are morally linked and produce new political nexus about a kind of “healthy HIV”. Starting from the prospect of the production of a “new preventive culture in HIV/Aids”, the data of the ethnography realized with members of a network of Rio de Janeiro's young people, beckon to the creation of new pedagogic repertories about living with HIV/Aids, when the viral undetectability is reached, as the most important condition of the serology. That is, when identities, discourses, and social practices, when reordered, produce ideal rationalities and corporalities. The maternity, in this context is taken as an exemplary case and provoke the problematizing of the relations among identities, sexual moralities and female autonomy in respect of the body and sexual pleasure, in a setting which has the major objective the politization of “successful experiences”.